My Loras Experience
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks." – Albert Einstein 1921
Albert Einstein made it clear how much he valued a liberal arts education in his memorable response to Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education was useless in 1921. Although 93 years have passed since this statement was made, the significance of such a statement still stands the test of time and is more relevant than ever today. So many colleges are filled with tens of thousands of students, their lecture halls packed by the hundreds. However here at Loras College you won’t find a single classroom with even a hundred students but the largest classroom may contain 60 at most. This smaller class size gives students no room to slip through the cracks. Each grade is earned. Each student is put through a rigorous 4 year learning experience. The minds that emerge from this institution are groomed to be able to think under pressure and adapt to any situation, for it is not just knowledge that is gained here but the ability to apply that knowledge dynamically as well. I strongly feel that this adaptability that is learned at college not only applies to homework and tests but to a work setting as well. Students that graduate from Loras are more effectively able to cooperate in group situations and think outside the box when it comes to tackling any sort of challenge that may come their way in a work environment. If there is a problem a Loras student does not immediately think of whom to call for help. Their first thought is to come up with a solution themselves and confront the problem in front of them head on. Knowledge truly is power. Being able to apply knowledge therefore transfers directly into being able to wield that power effectively.
Albert Einstein made it clear how much he valued a liberal arts education in his memorable response to Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education was useless in 1921. Although 93 years have passed since this statement was made, the significance of such a statement still stands the test of time and is more relevant than ever today. So many colleges are filled with tens of thousands of students, their lecture halls packed by the hundreds. However here at Loras College you won’t find a single classroom with even a hundred students but the largest classroom may contain 60 at most. This smaller class size gives students no room to slip through the cracks. Each grade is earned. Each student is put through a rigorous 4 year learning experience. The minds that emerge from this institution are groomed to be able to think under pressure and adapt to any situation, for it is not just knowledge that is gained here but the ability to apply that knowledge dynamically as well. I strongly feel that this adaptability that is learned at college not only applies to homework and tests but to a work setting as well. Students that graduate from Loras are more effectively able to cooperate in group situations and think outside the box when it comes to tackling any sort of challenge that may come their way in a work environment. If there is a problem a Loras student does not immediately think of whom to call for help. Their first thought is to come up with a solution themselves and confront the problem in front of them head on. Knowledge truly is power. Being able to apply knowledge therefore transfers directly into being able to wield that power effectively.